Improvement in picker-collars



JAMES M. GOTHAM, OF BLACKSTONE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF AND LEWIS DEVLIN, OF CENTRAL FALLS, RHODE ISLAND.

4|`|`v|PRovE|v|ENT IN PICKER-coLLARs.

`Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 107,772, dated September y,7, 1870.

.To all whom .it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. GOTHAM, of

Blackstone, in the State of Massachusetts,have

invented a new and Improved Picker-Collar; and I do hereby declare that the following specification, taken in connection with the drawings making a part of the same, is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Figure I is a perspective View of` the collar, picker, and staff. Fig. 2 isa view of the wedge D. Fig. 3 is a perspective view ofthe collar.

My invention consists in the manner of binding together the pieces of leather forming the picker, and the attachment of the same to the picker-statf, and lhas for its object facility of adjustment and economy of material and labor in its manufacture.

Taking into consideration the variety of Y pickers now in the market, it would be impossible to notice in this specilication the peculiarities of each, and by comparison show the superiority of my own. Ishall therefore only brieiy describe the picker now in most common use, whichlis made of several pieces of leather fastened together by nails, and attached to the staff by a leather strap, which iron collar, as hereinafter described, which not only holds the picker to the staff, but at p the same time binds together the pieces of leather forming the picker. The advantages derived by this arrangement over ordinary pickers are the saving in the material and labor and the preservation of the pickerstaff. I dispense with all nails and the labor of fastening together the pieces of leather therewith,

and construct the picker and collar as folpieces become worn out, the whole picker is thrown away; but in pickers attached with my'improved collar the pieces that are worn out only are removed and others substituted in their place. l

I construct the collar C, as shown in Fig. 3, with two slots, E and E', which receive the ears c and d of the wedge D and hold it in place, one ofthe slots being longer than the4 other, so that the wedge may be easily adjusted.

' What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The metal collar C, with the slots e, in combinatiou with the wedge D, having the ears c, all constructed and operating together as described, and for the purposes specied.

JAMES M. GOTHAM.

Witnesses:

W. B. ViNcnN'r, JOHN TURNER. 

